Re: [SG] Hostages

People like FMA are why the rest of us can maintain peaceful ideals. 
What's the line about a few rough men defending our peaceful slumber ? 
We're fundamentally nice guys, but we have a temper and a tendency 
towards situational ethics when dealing with global issues - which is 
what pisses people off about us when we act amoral in pursuit of a 
strategic objective. Kind of like a drunk, as a nation we occasionally 
exhibit disfunctional behavior. Yamamoto had it right with his sleeping 
giant line. And if I'm working a theme of quotations, we are also the 
nation that re-light the lights in Europe with the Marshall Plan and the

Cold War.

We have a lot of momentum to be the dominant world culture, but the 
Chinese and Indians will be heard from before we're done. The war(s) 
against Iraq and all might be test runs to develop the techniques we'll 
need against the Chinese. Any flight of B-2's from bases in the US could

cripple or eliminate China's nuclear deterrent and then their air 
defense network. After that it's just a question of how much we want to 
spend on ordnance to drop on Chinese targets.  What are they going to do

attack through North Korea and engage our forces on the DMZ ?

Ultimately, there might be enough strain on our internal structures to 
cause a fragmentation, collapse or return to isolationism. Or we might 
make a strong showing of a mature world leadership.In thirty years we 
could be anywhere from the Pax Americana to remeber them ?

Alan and Carmel Brain wrote:

>Natural peaceableness? This from the Full Metal Atkinson?
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>Now I haven't marked this "Off Topic" because in SG, it isn't.
>What happens when you're dealing with a Guerilla War in SG?
>When "civilian" is a category including the innocent, friends,
>and enemies masquerading as the uninvolved?
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